• LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      It’s six letters. Can’t they just call it zd or something? Yeah sure, I can use aliases, but why complicate in the first place?

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          2 months ago

          This is most probably a distro-specific aliasing. Tried it on Guix, it does not work:

          $ z
          bash: z: command not found
          
          $ zoxide
          zoxide 0.9.2
          ....
          
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            2 months ago

            It’s in the official docs for zoxide, you are supposed to use the z alias, and many distros just set it up directly like that. I love doing z notes from wherever I am.

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              2 months ago

              Description fifth point (5.)

              That doesn’t require a separate package, especially one which uses eval on every new shell. And isn’t messing with my distros or personal aliases (and doesn’t introduce cargo-packaging).

              Simply adding one to two (you get the gist) directories and a keybind for cd .. is more slick. There are cases where you might use pushd . but even then other tooling should already cover your needs.

              It’s also so easy that you can temporarly append to $CDPATH for a specific session. But again, then a second pane or pushd is already available.

              Now downvote me, lemmy.

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        When you set it up you tell it which command you want. Default is “cdi” but I changed it to “cd” immediately.